Posts Tagged ‘spirituality’

There are cheats, liars, embellishers, cons, BS’ers, smooth talkers, pathological nutbags, and straight up wastes of oxygen and flesh that roam this Earth. It is a tremendously hard pill to swallow and I look forward to the optimists that try to show me the good in the world. I know there is good in the world. I know it because I am surrounded by individuals that try to develop the depth of character and soul that so many individuals in this world lack. I love meeting new and interesting people; I just have a much shorter attention span for the aforementioned that want to brow beat you with their awesomeness!

As a comedian, I have realized that I hate comedians. The persona on stage may be fantastic; however, it is the miserable curmudgeons and sensitive pricks that they turn to off stage that makes them wholly intolerable. Comedians are sad, despondent, self-hating, bullshitters that in the midst of their self deprecating style of humor will let you know every single tidbit of information that makes them awesome. If you are not a comedian, you are probably wondering what I mean by all of this. Let’s put this into perspective…

You go to invest in a bank and instead of having to deal with one individual from the bank, all of the bank workers descend upon you and they are all telling you how great they are at managing money. Sadly, you realize you’re at a TD Bank and you realize that if they were any good, they would be at an investment firm, not a place with a drive through teller. Comedians, regardless of where they are performing, will always let you know how awesome they are.

I am awesome. If I didn’t believe I was awesome, I would be ineffective on the stage. However, I also recognize the awesomeness and douchiness of others. At the New Orleans Comedy Festival, I realized the ratio of douche to cool comics was sadly at a 10:1 ratio. I know that sounds bad and I’m sure a few of them will read this and will wonder, “Did he think I was a douche?” Probably, yes! It’s not that I am intolerant of differing personalities; it is that I have grown unaffected by the self righteous ass-clowns that are as entertaining as a knock-knock joke!

There are those that forget that they are not always on stage. I understand that we are in the business of making people laugh, but I also am in the business of being myself. That is when you accept yourself for who you are. Are there changes to be made? Absolutely, and if you believe that you don’t have changes to make then you really should just check out and make way for someone else in this world. Harsh? No, it’s called truth and some people don’t like the truth because the old cliche is true…the truth hurts.

When individuals want to impress another with their possessions, we easily cast them off as they are nothing more than sad little turdfarmers trying to cultivate enough turds to look and sound impressive. In High School, a classmate drove a Lexus. Now, I would have shown an incredible amount of respect for this person if he bought the car on his own. Sadly, his Daddy bought for him. Then we blur the lines of jealousy and wonder, do I really not like this person because of what he has and I am jealous of his possessions, or is his character so flawed that we all recognize that persons level of pomposity and would rather eat razor blades than listen to one more ski trip story? This is usually the super-model girlfriend having guy but she’s from Sweden type person. He rationalizes that it is better that he does not have any photos of her because she is so beautiful, that when photos of her are taken, all that can be seen is a blinding white light that will burn your retinas. Pathological by design, pathetic by nature.

Men are not the only ones that are guilty of perpetrating a false sense of identity into the world. After an hour of morning grooming, there are women in this world that so falsely advertise who they are that when the make up comes off, the outfit is removed, the shoes are kicked off, all you are left with is a rolled out piece of silly putty that possesses the ability to speak. The battle of the sexes need not be a battle, but when a woman comes prepared to fight with six inch heels and scores of Bobbi Brown make-up, she quickly becomes a cunning adversary. You think you are ready to duke it out with a woman that looks like Giselle, but by the end she looks like a gazelle.

Fake people make up a tremendous part of the population. I do not fault the individual for bending the truth and fixing the imperfections. However, when a person recognizes that they have patched up quite a few holes in the proverbial tire that is who they are, there is no reason to perpetuate the myth any further. When individuals pick on others to make themselves feel better, we call them bullies. When people pick on themselves to make others feel better, we call them comedians. When a person fraudulently puts out into this world a persona that is not truly who they are, we just resort to calling them people. That is the sad reality of internal integrity; we accept things for face value.

If face value was how we operated this world, there would not be huge discrepancies between what people make. If we did things according to face value, an individual could go see a movie and after that movie walk up to roll call and say, I want half of my money back because that movie was half way decent. Imagine those individuals coming out of the theater after Waterworld. “Excuse me, I’d like all of my money back and while you’re at it, throw me another twenty dollars for enduring that flaccid piece of whale spunk.” Face value would crumble our economy.

If face value were real, lawyers would be obsolete. “Your honor, this person side swiped my car, there was $5,000 in damage, I was out of work for six months, which is the equivalent of $25,000, and my wife and I argued for six months because we were broke, I would say that’s another $100,000.” The judge would take it into consideration, the insurance company would write the check right there, and everyone would just go home. Instead, there are scheming individuals that find ways to up the ante so they can up their take home. If it is what it is, then it should come out exactly what it is.

If face value were real, teachers and policemen would be millionaires, and rich, ass-hats like Bill Gates and the Facebook kid would make enough to get by. There is a price on what we value in this country and if it means bigger, better, and faster, then we are all for it. Those with little to no internal integrity would continue to develop products that we want and do not need and eventually, we would all recognize humility is far more valuable than Hummers, love is infinitely more priceless than Gucci, your child’s baseball coach is paramount to learning life lessons while Coach is merely the product that your child covets.

“If it’s change you seek, start from within. Once you’re comfortable with who you’ve become, start over and recognize perfection is a pursuit, not an end result.”